Stern & Wild client uses cutting-edge technology to recreate the Earth’s prehistoric past

More exciting news this week for Stern & Wild filmmaker Duncan Singh, one of the team behind the much-anticipated prehistory docuseries SURVIVING EARTH which is set to premiere on NBC next month.

The ambitious eight-part series blends location filming from 12 countries with cutting-edge CGI and VFX as it explores how life not only survived but thrived through Earth’s most significant extinction level events and prehistoric cataclysms, turning disaster into opportunity and mass extinctions into engines of evolution. It is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio and UK indie Loud Minds (WALKING WITH DINOSAURS), with Oscar-winning UK effects studio Milk VFX (EX MACHINA, THE MARTIAN) creating the spectacular digital environments, landscapes and creatures that bring the series to life.

Duncan directed two of the show’s episodes, partnering with Milk and a team of hundreds of VFX specialists to shoot in remote, dangerous and beautiful locations across Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Scotland to mimic the landscape of the Earth millions of years ago, and to deliver the production’s feature-film level creature CGI.

SURVIVING EARTH premieres on Thursday, 11 June at 8.00pm ET/PT on NBC, with new episodes streaming the following day on Peacock. It is expected to be available in the UK on Sky and its streaming service NOW later this summer. For a sneak peak, watch the trailer here.